I thoroughly enjoyed meeting Matt Brown, a presenter on the Christian Radio station UCB2, yesterday. I had been invited along to talk about my new book “Rooted Loved Affirmed” on his daily programme, ‘This Is My Story’ (you can scroll down to his show the UB2 on demand Radioplayer to Matt’s show on 2nd June) .
Although we had only a few minutes to chat and get to know each other before the live interview commenced, we immediately connected, particularly over our shared background of growing up in the Methodist Church. During our conversation, we discussed the importance of children’s workers and youth leaders for the generations growing up within the church. These excellent volunteer teachers may never see the fruit of their labours, but we should encourage them to persevere, even when things are difficult or numbers are low. They are on the frontline of sharing God’s love with children and young people. That is undoubtedly a very worthy thing to do!
My husband, Tony, a Methodist minister, meets with couples to prepare them for marriage or their child’s baptism. Some of these individuals may not attend church regularly, but they remember their time in Sunday school with fondness and feel a desire to return and ‘do the right thing’.
There may be others we know for whom church and Sunday school are a distant memory. But perhaps someone is waiting for you or me to do the right thing and invite them back to church.
